damien.lee
Runaway Train
I seem spend a lot of time in Adelaide for work and every time I go down I like to try and get out to take photos. This time I only took my camera with the 135m lens as I had planned to take photos of the Tour Down Under. In the taxi from the airport I started looking into the weather forecast for the weekend and noticed that it was predicted to be clear with the moon setting around midnight, perfect conditions for night photography. I couldn't help but think about how cool it would be to head up to the salt lakes and try some milky way and star trails over the salt lakes. I ended up hiring some gear and a car and made a mad dash out of the city up to a place called Lake Bumbunga. I found this place looking at an amazing local photographer Dylan Toh's flickr stream, who has done some amazing work in this location.
I ended up deciding that I would try and relive my recent trip to NZ and just sleep on location...... Big mistake with only a car to sleep in!! You just feel so exposed and it is impossible to sleep especially as I was completely unprepared for it.
Anyway this is a photo that I took in the morning as I wondered around the salt lake. It was bit dodgy as certain parts of the lake were still slightly soft and if you pushed too hard you ended up breaking through the salt crust into this black shit. I found these old railway tracks in the middle of nowhere and I can only guess that they were once used to transport the salt back to trucks on the edge of the lake???
Enjoy......
Runaway Train
I seem spend a lot of time in Adelaide for work and every time I go down I like to try and get out to take photos. This time I only took my camera with the 135m lens as I had planned to take photos of the Tour Down Under. In the taxi from the airport I started looking into the weather forecast for the weekend and noticed that it was predicted to be clear with the moon setting around midnight, perfect conditions for night photography. I couldn't help but think about how cool it would be to head up to the salt lakes and try some milky way and star trails over the salt lakes. I ended up hiring some gear and a car and made a mad dash out of the city up to a place called Lake Bumbunga. I found this place looking at an amazing local photographer Dylan Toh's flickr stream, who has done some amazing work in this location.
I ended up deciding that I would try and relive my recent trip to NZ and just sleep on location...... Big mistake with only a car to sleep in!! You just feel so exposed and it is impossible to sleep especially as I was completely unprepared for it.
Anyway this is a photo that I took in the morning as I wondered around the salt lake. It was bit dodgy as certain parts of the lake were still slightly soft and if you pushed too hard you ended up breaking through the salt crust into this black shit. I found these old railway tracks in the middle of nowhere and I can only guess that they were once used to transport the salt back to trucks on the edge of the lake???
Enjoy......